Page. line. · ERRATA. 25 10 infert1after Wherefore 77 8 from bottom, for V. Testimonies, read IV. Testimonies 86 15 infert after transcribed 90 5. dele the inverted commas A SUPPLEMENT TO THE SECOND PART OF THE CREDIBILITY OF THE GOSPEL HISTORY; CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THE APOSTLES AND EVANGELISTS, WRITERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT: In which the EVIDENCES of the GENUINENESS of the FOUR GOSPELS, the ACTS of the APOSTLES, the EPISTLES, and the BOOK of the REVELATION, and the Times when they were written, are represented in a Light suited to all Capacities: WITH REMARKS AND OBSERVATIONS UPON EVERY BOOK OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, Useful for all who defire to understand the CHRISTIAN RELIGION. (FIRST PUBLISHED IN THREE VOLUMES-VOL. I. AND II, IN MDCCLVI. General Denominations of the Collection of facred Books received by Chriftians. J. Scripture. 11. Bible. III. Canon. IV. Old and New Testament. V. Inftrument. VI. Digeft. VII. Gospel. I. ONE of the general denominations of the facred books is Scripture, or Scriptures, literally or primarily fignifying writing. But by way of eminence and diftinction the books in highest efteem are called Scripture, or the Scriptures. This word occurs often in the New Teftament, in the gofpels, the Acts, and the epiftles. Whereby we perceive, that in the time of our Saviour and his apoftles this word was in common ufe, denoting the books received by the Jewish people, as the rule of their faith. To them have been fince added by Chriftians the writings of the apoftles and evangelifts, completing the collection of books, received by them as facred and divine. Some of the places, where the word fcripture is ufed in the fingular number for the books of the Old Teftament, are thefe: 2 Tim. iii. 16. All fcripture is given by inspiration of God. And Luke iv. 21. John ii. 22. John ii. 22. Acts i. 16. viii. 32, 35. Rom. iv. 3. Gal. iii. 8. James ii. 8. 23. 1 Pet. ii. 6. 2 Pet. i. 20. Scriptures, in the plural number, in thefe following, and many other places. Matt. xxi. 42. xxii. 29. xxvi. 54. Luke xxiv. 27, 32, 45. John v. 39. Acts xvii. 2, 11. xviii. 24, 28. 2 Tim. iii. 15. 2 Pet. iii. 16. St. Peter applies this word to the books of the New as well as of the Old Testament, to St. Paul's epiftles in particular: 2 Pet. iii. 16....as also in all his epiftles. . . which they that are unlearned wreft, as they do alfo the other fcriptures, |